'Blue Springs' photo routes

After starting work on analysing typical AQM-34L missions late 2016, Craig Kaston hit gold in the CIA Library Electronic Reading Room. If you enter the search words 'Blue Springs', you get around 400 results of Firebee missions during 1964-1966, including maps of the photo route of the missions. Below I copied the maps from the first ten missions that I found. The original PDFs contain much higher resolution pictures, so consult these for more details. The file names are listed below each picture and can be used for the search in the CIA database. 'Blue Springs' was the code name for the 'Lightning Bug' mission of the 4080th Wing, initially Kadena AB, Japan (August 1964) and later Bien Hoa, Vietnam (October 1964).

MISSION BLUE SPRINGS 5037 29 DECEMBER 1964 (a route through the Yunnan province of China, around Kunming, north of Vietnam)

MISSION BLUE SPRINGS 5052 22 JANUARY 1965 (first a part of China, then transit through Indian airspace, then a slice of Laos)

MISSION BLUE SPRINGS 5053 1 FEBRUARY 1965 (starting in India, running a rectangular pattern through of China, exciting through India, then a piece of Laos)

MISSION BLUE SPRINGS 5040 14 FEBRUARY 1965 (a route through the Yunnan province of China, north of Vietnam)

BLUE SPRINGS MISSION 5068 13 APRIL 1965 (a route west of Hanoi)

MISSION BLUE SPRINGS 5081 24 JUNE 1965 (a good chunk of area around Hanoi)

MISSION BLUE SPRINGS 5084A 4 JULY 1965 (a long route, mostly south of Hanoi)

BLUE SPRINGS 5103 12 SEPTEMBER 1965 (a long route NW-SE, south of Hanoi)

BLUE SPRINGS MISSION 5520 5 AUGUST 5520 (1966) (Haiphong and Hanoi mostly)

BLUE SPRINGS MISSION 5527 18 SEPTEMBER 1966 (Hanoi area)

BLUE SPRINGS MISSION 5527 23 SEPTEMBER 1966 (Hanoi area)